On Monday 9th of April the NUFEB group hosted a workshop on Agent-Based modelling of small scale systems. There were a number of presentations from both internal and external speakers with focus on a number of different projects using these types of methods. The members of the NUFEB modelling teams all presented the different aspects of the project on which they are working, ranging from the chemistry implemented in individual based models of microbial communities and the implementation of individual based models in parallel with the inclusion of mechanistic and chemical processes, to the emulation of these models for use when combined with large scale modelling of wastewater systems. There were also a number of speakers working on different projects both within Newcastle University and externally. Jonny Naylor from the Simbiotics group presented his work on developing an accessible 3D modelling environment for bacterial systems and a demonstration of the functionality and uses of the iDynoMiCS 2 software was given by Bastiaan Cockx. There were also several presentations of work using these types of models for understanding the growth of oral bacteria and the use of Agent-Based models in studying neural development.
The workshop was a full day of interesting talks and discussion on Agent-Based modelling offering great insight into the uses these models are being put to, and the directions in which the methods are developing.
Many thanks to all who attended for making it an excellent day of learning and discussion.
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